Ex-CIA agent pleads guilty to spying for China

Ex-CIA agent Jerry Chung Shing Lee pleaded guilty to spying for China. In 2012, FBI searched a Honolulu hotel room and found secret information in his luggage, including the true identities of CIA assets.

Washington:Former CIA agent Jerry Chung Shing Lee pleaded guilty in federal court on Wednesday to spying for China.

Lee, 54, left the CIA in 2007 after which he settled in Hong Kong, where he met the Chinese intelligence officials in 2010 and was recruited.

Thousands of dollars were deposited in Lee's Hong Kong bank account between May 2010 and December 2013.

In 2012, FBI searched a Honolulu hotel room and found secret information in his luggage, including the true identities of CIA assets.

He was interviewed by the CIA officials multiple times in 2012.

Lee was under investigation for more than five years until his arrest in January 2018. He will be sentenced in August.